Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've started to look at KDE4 and wondered if anyone else has started to > build it.
Since I never managed to get qt3 and qt4 installed in parallel (with both working), and some programs wanting qt4, I was waiting for KDE4 so I could put qt3 to rest. (Although I don't use a KDE desktop.) I've downloaded the sources yesterday and wanted to start the build today. > According to http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4 it looks > like there will be several new packages needed: > > qt4 This is not exactly a surprise, is it? ;-) > libclucene > librdf These 2 I missed. > boost My standard BLFS build includes boost. But I'm not sure if it works (after further reading in this thread). > cmake Piece of cake: CMMI, honors DESTDIR. > arts is no longer a part of kde, but I'm not sure yet if it is needed at > all. Same goes here. > It looks like HAL and dBus will be required. These are kinda basic requirement for any desktop now. > The base kde download is 220M and that doesn't include the i18n packages > and several smaller packages that are in the extragear/ directory: Ah, thanks for pointing this out. I just downloaded the tarballs from the sources page. > This is going to be a major effort and the learning curve is going to be > steep. I'd appreciate any advice that others may have. Have you checked their build instructions? They recommend a special user with a special .bashrc ... Gah! I'll take a closer look when I'm back from town (some shopping required). Hans-Joachim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
